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...HOW to tie a toga from giant sheet AND create a Roman arch from peanut butter and cheese, PLUS lift a rubber ducky to the skies with a waterwheel and aqueduct from plastic cups and tube.
...How to crack a Viking code AND horned helmets, were they really real? PLUS building a long ship from a drink carton, toothpicks and paper using Viking boat building techniques.
How vegetables can help you work out the size of the planets AND how a balloon and foil makes a perfect black hole, PLUS a bottle, pvc pipe and inner tube are transformed into a stomp rocket that takes to the skies.
Our hosts get into the pirate mood learning about how pirates turned bad.They learn about tying knots for sails and their shoes, make their own pirate flags like a jolly roger and study the pirate rule book.
Meet a medieval estate agent with some fancy castles to sell and hear how knights' training was long and hard and how they wore family crests called coats of arms to stand out in battle.
Our hosts build a pyramid from sugar cubes, use mint and ox hooves to make Egyptian toothpaste, recreate papyrus paper and ink and write in hieroglyphs.
Our hosts try out some Renaissance painting techniques and create their own version of the Mona Lisa, plus working out how springs can help tell the time. Figure out how Renaissance astrologers turned their eyes to the skies.
Zac and Isabella make a self-powered fountain from plastic bottles and tubes that move water uphill. While Jake and Marley make masks from paper mache and use their unique design to be heard in an Amphitheatre.
Speaking in sign language Native American style and making a dream catcher from wire, beads and feathers. Plus toys made from corn and making a coup stick or story stick from feathers and wood.
Today our hosts are exploring traditional Indigenous instruments like the didgeridoo, clap sticks and gum leaves, and experimenting with the boomerang and an emu caller! Plus they experiment with paint to decorate themselves!
How to work out your weight in gold and what to look out for when turning your gold into cold hard cash. Making a windlass winch from drink cans and straws and a cockatoo pie for dinner; no thanks!
Testing out whether white or black fabric keeps you cooler in the desert, try out some ancient African greetings or dance traditions and making African jewelry to tell a story or send a message!
Why exploration flourished, how maps were made up and all the wonderful tastes, sights and smells that went global thanks to explorers! Plus how lemons really could save your life!
Chris and Leno go big with a modern version of an ancient Aztec ball game Tlatchi in an ancient fort. What's more they make a modern version of the Aztec calendar wheel to predict Matt's birthday.
Hold onto your hats as we hit the trail with the cowboys and early pioneers who forged America's Western Frontier. Learn about life as a cool cowboy - wrangling cattle, lassos, and dressing to impress.
Matt's dressed as a caveman with a very big mat and Paige rustles up some pre-historic jewelry! Plus working out the biggest difference between apes and early humans! And how to paint upside down, in the dark caveman style!
Paige and Matt get into the spirit of Ancient Arabia by creating a KA-RAH-GOOZ Shadow theatre with a light box and cardboard puppets on a stick! They set up a feast Arabian style with exotic foods of the day and rich spices.
Emily and Anthony use cardboard to make a Pacific Canoe complete with waterproofing and an outrigger for balance. Meanwhile Ruby and Chris discover the styles and patterns of Pacific weaving creating their own place mat!
Matt sports a punk like hairstyle, blue face and fancy necklace called a torq - just like the Celts! Paige insists her horned helmet is not a Viking style but Celtic and shows how to make wool the Celtic way!
Anthony and Zac use Robin Hood disguises, tracking and dummy drops to get their hands on dad's choccies! Sofie and Chris use criminalistics like fingerprinting, soil samples and footprints to nab the nicker of their lunch box.
Emily and Otis use discarded bark to create a Maya concertina codex or newspaper. And Lexi, Tessa and Josh get their fingers dirty and design pottery fit for a queen.
Our hosts discover the strength of the earth, how to measure it and figure out where they are going to? Plus de-mystifying an ancient Chinese abacus and how it beats a calculator hands down!
Translating a smoke message and what was it with Morse code PLUS how phones have changed over the decades and when writing means a feather and ink, not a phone or a keyboard.
Working out the ways that wheels have changed the way we travel and making gears from vegetables to power our vehicles. Plus what was it with flight and making Leonardo Da Vinci helicopter that launches high and dry!
